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The Kaleidoscope

Teddy Bardin married Auguste, who he thought was the man of his dreams, and to start a new life with his husband, he moved from New York to Paris, the city of light. Now, on a rainy afternoon, a life-shattering telephone call arrives, and Teddy learns that Auguste has been in a car accident.

After racing to the hospital to visit his stricken husband, Teddy is in for another emotional shock—listed among Auguste’s injuries is a nearly severed penis. It comes as an even bigger surprise when Teddy learns that Auguste was with another man who was orally pleasuring him at the moment of impact. And that’s only the beginning in a series of heartbreaking discoveries.

Teddy quickly comes to realize he must make some tough decisions about his future, especially about his marriage and unfaithful husband...and also his growing obsession with Pierre, the other important man in Auguste’s life...

Shattered By Fate

Elvis Summers and his writing partner Holt have scored a fantastic gig—spending two months in romantic Buenos Aires while researching their old TV idol, Guy Williams, famous for playing Zorro and the futuristic, perfect father in Lost in Space.

What made Williams fall so deeply in love with Argentina that he gave up his acting career to move there in the mid-70s?

For years, the actor remained an icon as Zorro in Argentina, even though he died alone and under mysterious circumstances in his apartment in the lush neighborhood of Recoleta. As Elvis and Holt retrace the actor's footsteps, history and gothic romance seep into their souls. Elvis meets a hot local named Joaquin, a man with his own secrets and apparent fears. Elvis falls hard and fast for the sexy porteño, but after scorching nights of passion, Joaquin inexplicably vanishes.

Elvis desperately searches for him even as Holt tries to convince him that Joaquin was obviously not interested and that residents of Joaquin's apartment building claim no such man exists.

Feeling the ghost of Guy Williams accompanying him on his sometimes-frightening search, Elvis is determined to find the man he came to adore. Or will he, like TV's Zorro, find himself shattered by fate?

This book has been previously published and re-released.

Pearls, Porches And Peanuts

MacIntosh ‘Tosh’ Tanner has had the worst year of his life with the cancellation of his TV series, Cowboy County, and a former business manager stealing his money. And now his boyfriend has dumped him, too. He fears for his future until he receives an unexpected surprise. He’s inherited a massive, run-down ranch in Dripping Springs, Texas, from a fan. It’s worth over a million bucks. Discovering he shares this bizarre estate with another beneficiary, he wonders who it could be. Anyone would be great as long as it’s not his archenemy, Dagan Rucker.

Dagan, Tosh’s former co-star, was also swindled by the same business manager, but over his lengthy career, he invested in a lot of property. Settled in Topanga, the real cowboy heart of LA, he bought the area’s first-ever working ranch and turned it into a bed-and-breakfast. He’s happy with his life, but lonely, and thinks about Tosh often, ever since they shared a scorching encounter five years ago. He’s tried for so long to work things out with Tosh, who refuses to even consider the possibility of them being together.

This book has been previously published and re-released.

Naked In Hong Kong

Rylan Seabury’s finding it difficult to make ends meet now he’s no longer the sparring partner to world heavyweight champion Shane Womack. When he finds the opportunity to make easy money as a male escort, the work is fun until he encounters the intense and possessive Beverly Hills attorney, Harley Stuart. Rylan is able to keep the man at arm’s length until Harley decides he wants to take Rylan to Hong Kong with him on a week-long lavish business trip. For Rylan, who’s a bit of a dreamer, it’s the chance to visit the city that inspired his hero, the late, great Martial Arts star, Bruce Lee.

Left to his own devices during the day, Rylan discovers a hidden Hong Kong most tourists don’t get to see. He’s attracted the attention of the very handsome but shy Tanjiro, the security guard of his lavish boutique hotel. Surprises are in store when Rylan starts to realize nobody else, but he can see Tanjiro. Is he real? Or is he really a ghost? Why are all the good guys dead? And why does a pecking bird hold all the answers to his questions? Rylan has plenty to deal with both in Hong Kong and back home. Shane is housesitting for him and flipping out. But Harley is getting crazy enough for both of them. Rylan soon finds himself unable to cope with Harley’s irrational anger and extreme jealousy. But there, waiting for him, just out of reach, is the man he’s now obsessed with, the haunting, hunted Tanjiro…

This book has been previously published and re-released.

Temptation Eyes

Owen was born into a Were family, and like those before him, he is expected to turn on the full moon of his twenty-first birthday. And there are especially high expectations concerning Owen’s shift from boy to wolf, given that his birthday falls on the night of the full moon itself.

But when the full moon rises on that fated night, nothing happens. While others around him change, he stays the same, forced to run for his life from the angry pack. Needless to say, Owen is a disappointment to his family.

But then a mysterious and sexy stranger with wickedly tempting eyes comes to stay at Owen’s mother’s boarding house, a stranger regarded as suspicious by the clan, who apparently knows that there is far more to Owen than his failure to shift...

This book has been previously published and re-released.

The Love God of Indian Frybread

As Ever studies one particular ancient Egyptian mummy, he experiences the odd, chilly sensation of somebody touching and following him. Every time he turns to look, he thinks it's handsome but obnoxious security guard Chris Coelho, who snuck Ever into the exhibit as a favor. Chris clearly wants the favor returned, but would the man really feel up Ever in public? Ever isn't sure, but then once he goes home, weird things continue happening.

Chris shows up everywhere, but he's suddenly sweet, silly, profound and…forgetful. After a torrid night of passion, Ever becomes hooked on the guy even as his feelings for Chris veer between desire and exasperation.

And then, the mummy Ever had been studying disappears from the exhibit. Could the events be connected? Could the spirit of the mummy have somehow followed him home? Is Ever losing his mind? Or is Chris really, as he says in a drunken moment, The Love God of Indian Frybread?

This book was previously published.

Fawnskin

When Rallus quits his FBI job and moves to the mountain town of Fawnskin, California, to get away from it all, he has no clue that rural life will mean falling in love with another mysterious newcomer. He falls hard and fast for Knox Baylor, who’s taken an unusual job as a shomerim, a corpse watcher at a funeral home.

For Knox, the job should be easy money, even if the hours are long...except that he falls asleep on the job and accidentally releases Mr. Harold Hoxheimer’s angry spirit, or dybbuk, which starts creating unholy havoc in Fawnskin.

Harold opens all the secret wounds festering under Fawnskin’s pretty, postcard exterior. Fawnskin is home to a fake fortune teller who blackmails residents but hides an even more sinister secret. And why do individuals keep dying in the old people’s home? Rallus barely has time to deal with these problems when a grizzly murder takes place and a small boy is abducted.

As they investigate, Rallus and Knox find that nothing is what it seems in this once-quiet town with the warm and fuzzy name...everybody has a secret, and some are willing to go to deadly lengths to keep them.

How can they keep Mr. Hoxheimer’s vengeful dybbuk from jumping from one host body to the next? What exactly does he want? And can Rallus and Knox defeat the growing evil with true love?

This book has been previously published and re-released.

Precious Blood
- The House of Driscoll Book 2

Max discovers that Jimmy McGill, the vampire masquerading as a phony preacher, is an old foe from his past. The man, who has created his own church with virgin blood-slaves sating his appetite, has managed to find fans among human followers as well as vampires in the Big Apple.

Jimmy has also begun to infiltrate Max’s mind. Only somebody with deep knowledge and a personal connection to Max would be able to do this. Yet Max simply can’t remember Jimmy. Memories might be dim, especially when they involve Max’s early life as a human, but remember he must, if Jimmy’s deadly rampage is to be stopped.

Longing to be at home in France, strolling his lush vineyards in the Loire Valley with, in his heart of hearts, Blue at his side, Max soon realizes Jimmy is a maniac who must be destroyed. Plunged into a brutal fight involving key central figures of the French Revolution, Max marshals his own army to combat the strange "legion" Jimmy has assembled. But can the House of Driscoll survive a bloody, deadly battle with a supreme enemy?

Advisory: This book contains some graphic violence and blood play. May not be suitable for the more sensitive reader.

Makahiki
- The Last Warrior Book 3

In the final chapter of the exciting Last Warrior series, Lio Paikai rushes to the hospital with his lover, Kord, for the birth of his baby brother, Lono. They’re soon waylaid, however, by traffic on the Pali Highway.

Not by cars, but foot traffic. He and Kord, who once were warriors for the last king of Oahu, have intercepted an ancient procession of devotees marching down the old Pali for the Makahiki. They’re stunned to learn dark kahuna forces plan to provide a blood sacrifice for the New Year festival.

The sacrifice they have inadvertently crossed paths with is Lio’s. He must right past wrongs—or there won’t be any future for him or the man he loves.

The House of Driscoll

In the midst of the turbulent French Revolution, Max Driscoll turned his stable-hand Galien into a vampire mate to save him from the guillotine. Max later came to regret that rash act, however, when he realized Galien was not a good man, nor the right man for him. Since then, no matter how many miles, how many centuries Max puts between them, he just can’t shake the rogue vampire.

Lured from his French castle to New York City to ‘clean up’ Galien’s series of abductions and murders in the city’s gay district, Max is forced into a long-awaited confrontation and vows to eliminate his nemesis permanently. What he doesn’t know, however, is that it’s not Galien who’s on the killing spree, but a young man Galien turned. Now, Blue is a sweet, sensitive, beautiful, tragic vampire…and a homicidal maniac.

Can Max tame Blue enough to make him his partner in the afterlife and a worthy member of the vampire community in the House of Driscoll?

Palehua
- The Last Warrior Book 2

Lio Paikai is adjusting to both his new, extremely passionate relationship with his lover, Kord Ashley, and his status as 'Ailani, the reincarnated, loyal warrior who fought for the last king of the Hawaiian islands Oahu and Maui. Having severed his ties with his mother, Kalani, Lio grows closer to his father and his new family, but Kalani won't leave them alone.

Violating a restraining order of protection, Kalani is arrested. Hours later, when Lio accompanies his stepmother to a birthing class, a strange woman falls from the sky landing on the hood of his SUV. Old wounds, old curses and the demand for retribution threatens to destroy his entire family. Lio must uncover the identity of the fallen woman and soon learns her heartbreaking connection to his mother and the damage it has caused Kalani her entire life. Lio must right an ancient wrong and appease the old island gods that demand an immediate Palehua: blood sacrifice.

Legend of the Ice Box Wolf
- Mojave Mountain Wolves Book 2

Horatio Longsworth lives and works with the Mojave Mountain Wolf Pack, but he’s never gotten over his lost love, Fain. Though Fain tricked and almost killed him, Horatio believes there has to be an explanation. Fain could never really hurt him. Or could he? But when one of his own is also nearly fatally wounded, can Horatio overlook all the evidence to give Fain a second chance?

Fain Para is a man of myth and mystery. He loves Horatio but left him to protect him. Or so he led Horatio to believe. When the Mojave Mountain Wolves relocate from Timtuk Canyon Ranch to the more isolated Icebox Canyon, strange things start happening to the pack. Is he the dangerous predator people say he is, or is there something…someone out there, even deadlier than Fain?

The Odds

Hot guitar player Angus Mackay learned how to escape unhappiness early in life. The only love he’d ever felt came from his big sister, Debbie. When he learns she is dying, he’s forced to return home and face not only his demons, but hers as well. He must deal with Steven, the lover he left behind, who helped Debbie raise her daughter, Sherry. But Angus is in for a rude shock. Not only must he confront his past, but what could have been his future because Eli Borich, a man he had an amazing one-night stand with, is Steve’s lodger, friend, and employee. Can Angus cope with it all?

Eli had his hopes set on a musical career and a relationship with Angus before they’d even met. Given the chance to play one night in Angus’s band, his hopes rose then fell when Angus split town and didn’t look back. Eli’s musical hopes have died but he senses that Angus isn’t as indifferent as he initially seems. What are the odds that Eli’s luck is about to change for the better?

Island Heat

Roman and Philippe are hotshot Hollywood wedding planners about to embark on a new exotic location for big-buck weddings—Tahiti. The French government has just changed the law to allow foreign marriages to take place on these wild, untamed islands, and the ten-day, all-expenses paid trip to the South Seas can’t come at a better time for the couple.

With Roman in remission from a near-fatal bout with male breast cancer, Philippe feels this is like their own honeymoon...except for one small thing. Philippe’s former lover, Tane, is still living in Tahiti and has his sights set on claiming Philippe for himself. Roman, feeling insecure following his devastating illness, watches helplessly as the big, muscular island god makes a play for his man.

Philippe, too, seems thrilled to see Tane again. He would love to re-experience the sexy islander’s touch, only with Roman participating in a threesome. But will Roman become mesmerized by the mysterious islander and agree to the salacious proposal?

Come, feel the heat of Tahiti and a demi-god named Tane...

Balthazar Starblitz

When Flip McCabe spots an unusual ad in a magazine requesting a young man or woman to train in the fine art of tea service, he's pleasantly surprised to learn that it's still available. He needs this job—any job—desperately, but his new boss, Mr. Chen, will mysteriously tell him only to report for duty at Platform Thirteen at LA's Union Station at nine o'clock the following morning.

Arriving in plenty of time, Flip becomes panic-stricken when he can't find any such platform, nor is there a tea shop listed at the bustling railway station. Frantic to get to work, he stumbles across an old line on an outdoor platform and is catapulted in another era of the station somewhere else in time.

The elegant, old-worldly Mr. Chen dispenses tea and serious help for those who need it, but his frail body is no longer up to the dangerous escapades involved with murder, mayhem and steam trains. Flip is sent back to the past to help various famous, often wrongfully convicted criminals, and then plunged back to the present to find a man who needs not only his help, but his love.

But will Flip be able to aid the dynamic, exhilarating Balthazar Starblitz, a werewolf on the run from charges related to a series of grisly murders he did not commit?

King of Hell's Kitchen

Throughout his career as a New York homicide detective, Nash McCleery has seen his share of curious killings, but the latest murders in Hell’s Kitchen come complete with both torture and tarot cards. His search for the murderer leads him to the upscale apartment of Casey Baddock, a professional Dom-for-hire. Nash soon realizes that the only way to catch the killer may be for him to play the role of a sub in a BSDM dungeon.

Casey Baddock is all about control, but McCleery is making him feel a little off-center. Can Casey help Nash find a murderer without surrendering his heart?

XU Again

Lindo Santiago is finding a rich new life after being forced to give up his dreams of becoming a world boxing champion. He and his lover, Turner, have a wonderful relationship and their lifestyle in Hawaii is idyllic. Lindo has saved his money and now enjoys good health...his only problem is finding a passion apart from the man he loves. Having dedicated his whole life to the "sport of kings," he has no real ambition but makes money doing TV commentary for boxing shows. Content to let his path find him, he is surprised when boxing knocks on his door again...

His ex-lover, Bayani, a Filipino boxer, is training for a world title fight and Lindo's former trainer enlists Lindo's help in preparing the fighter for war...except that Bayani is in no shape to take a single punch, let alone win a world title fight. Lindo declines to help until Xu returns to his world, infiltrating his dreams and urging Lindo to intervene and prevent Bayani's certain death.

But can Bayani be saved? Only a dramatic, otherworldly force that is Xu can help...

XU

Fight or flight? This has always been the way of Lindo Santiago’s life, and he has always chosen to fight. He has prepared for world championship boxing glory his entire career. From the Mexican slums to the hard streets of Hollywood, he gave it everything. Lindo thought he was ready until his world title shot arrived and almost killed him. Now, forced to retire by the California State Athletic Commission, he has defied the odds by surviving a three-month coma and severe brain injury.

Forced to choose a new path, to live a different life, Lindo is certain he can do it, with the help of Xu, a mysterious spirit force of a man who emerged in the darkest days of Lindo’s coma. Xu and Lindo’s homosexuality are his biggest secrets. Encouraged to take his first vacation ever, Lindo flies to Honolulu where Xu becomes more potent, yet more mysterious. Signs are everywhere that Lindo must choose between love and death, and he also must decide whether to enter into a relationship with a hot local, Turner Cypriano. But if he does, what will that mean for Xu?

Heart of Stone
- Blackeye Book 1

Athen ‘Blackeye’ Mavromatis moves from New York to Beverly Hills to be lead investigator in their serious crimes division. It isn’t long before he gets his first case. A dead woman’s body has been found wrapped in a carpet outside somebody’s house ready for pickup with their trash. Athen must appease not only the police chief, but the mayor, in a city where murder doesn’t happen often. In fact, this is the first homicide in eight years.

Athen must wrap things up quickly because nothing must tarnish the Beverly Hills image of being the home of movie stars and the most expensive store in the world. The cops here pride themselves on a one-minute response time to emergency calls, but this case won’t get solved that fast. Secrets and lies, gangs, a mysterious woman…all of it is like a ticking timebomb. Meanwhile, Athen has his lover, Grady, at home, who worries about a strange link in his life with the dead woman. Who could have such a heart of stone to leave her out with the rubbish?

Timtuk Canyon Ranch
- Mojave Mountain Wolves Book 1

When Smith Ryland develops a sudden, pathological fear of heights, he seeks professional help. A lifelong animal ecologist, he can no longer climb trees or trek through rainforests to follow the bird colonies he’s studied for eleven years. He takes a job looking after wild animals in the oddly named Timtuk Canyon Ranch, in the middle of California’s Mojave Desert. He’s astonished to find the ranch is in the mountains. How can he handle this unusual assignment? And what’s up with Jones, Just Jones, the mysterious, magnetic owner of the ranch?

Jones has secrets. Smith intrigues him because Jones is the caretaker of numerous animals most people don’t even know exist. Smith is comfortable with all the animals, including the ones that aren’t part of the…everyday world. Jones senses Smith needs the ranch as much as Timtuk needs him. Can Jones trust this newcomer? Something is changing, bringing with it…magic, but also the threat of lethal danger to Timtuk Canyon Ranch.

Come by Chance

When photographer’s assistant Gary Holland meets three Australian underpants models—all called Bruce—on what should be a routine shoot in LA, it turns out to be anything but. He falls for the geekiest, yet sexiest, Bruce of them all, but soon learns Bruce has not only never been with another man but is an anxious virgin.

Bruce lives in the whimsically named town of Come By Chance in northern New South Wales, population 187. After a torrid fling starts in California, Bruce wants Gary to visit him in the land down under. Shocks, laughter, love, a shy kangaroo named Phillip, a goose called Zeus and a tractor that thinks it’s a horse, soon welcome Gary to a life he never thought he’d want to live. Can two men who are such opposites make a life together? Does love like this really…come by chance?

Originally released in 2011.

I Love You Goodbye
- Honeybone Book 5

Retired U.S. Marshal Dean Honeybone, his life-partner Jean-Luc, and their daughter Kaia have started a new life in Austin, TX. Jean-Luc has taken over a restaurant and has hired their neighbor, Manda-Jane Witten, as part of his kitchen staff.

Dean, Jean-Luc, Kaia, and even their dog Michael have come to adore Manda-Jane and her husband, Parker. During violent storms that shake Texas, Dean learns that Manda-Jane is deathly afraid of water, and when the couple’s home is flooded, Manda-Jane and Parker come to stay chez Honeybone, which serves to deepen the bond between the two families.

But when a mysterious cousin of Parker’s namded Ronnie arrives to help the Wittens repair their home, Dean becomes suspicious of him, convinced the guy has done serious prison time. Though Ronnie soon returns to his home in Birmingham, strange things start happening over at the Witten home.

And then the couple disappears.

Dean becomes worried for their safety and teams up with an active U.S. Marshal to track them down. Kaia, however, seems to think he’s too late. She keeps saying they’re gone and that Dean has to listen to the song “I Love You, Goodbye” to understand the reason why...

Vampires have come "out of the closet" and they're buying up real estate and running brothels in the City of Angels. Rory bitterly hates vampires. After all, one of them murdered his friend. So when his best friend Dennis begs him to accompany him to a vampire brothel on his birthday so that he can experience what is widely believed to be the sex of his life, Rory tags along reluctantly.

Rory and Dennis both find their worlds changed forever as the sun goes down on Eclipse. As they enter the revamped Magic Castle, they discover sex, love and blood can mix. Dennis finds himself falling in love with the mysterious Thiago and Rory is taken by Carden who is so beautiful, Rory isn't even sure if he's real…but evil is everywhere, permeating everything as the night closes in around them.

Slow Dance
- Orgasmic Texas Dawn Book 3

U.S. Marshal Jubilee Mason is separated from his lover, Canadian detective Kieran Fox, who goes undercover in his home country infiltrating a violent drug ring. Jubilee worries about Kieran, knowing how he throws himself into his undercover assignments, but this one almost destroys Kieran.

Meanwhile, back in Lone Trail, Jubilee is on the hunt for one of the U.S. Marshal's most wanted men, a former detective who murdered his wife and has been seen in an unlikely place--a brothel--by an even more an unlikely witness: Dillon dePriest, the newly installed, happily married sheriff of Lone Trail.

Will Jubilee and Kieran successfully navigate the shocking and often-dangerous twists and turns of their individual investigations and find their way back into each other's arms?

A Vampire in Waikiki

Gay-for-pay porn star Jimmy Thunder doesn't just have a double life, he's got three. Just when he thinks he has all his big secrets under control, he discovers mind-blowing sex and the emerging feelings of true love with his gay co-star, Angelis. And it's no fluke. These guys just can't keep their hands off each other, doing unscripted, hot sex scenes that thrill their director, but for Jimmy, it's actually one more problem he doesn't need.

His most recent ex-girlfriend claims she's pregnant, his current girl is fighting deportation, and just what is that deadly entity lurking in Angelis' second bedroom? Jimmy knows an otherworldly monster when he feels one. And he ought to know, because Jimmy's a vampire. Sleeping by day, hiding at night, Jimmy's many secrets are about to collide in the sinister, dark side of tropical Waikiki few visitors ever see.

If Come

If you enjoyed The Long Way Home by Z.A. Maxfield, or Dex in Blue by Amy Lane, then this book might just be for you! Make this one of your top romance novels of the year!

In If Come, AJ Llewellyn deals with the ancient deadly sin of acedia.

It was once considered the 'noonday demon'—a melancholia that is brought about by repetitive work. Writing, marriage and monkhood were the three main occupations said to induce it.

Zam Carmarthen is a mildly successful Hollywood screenwriter struggling with a debilitating depression that prevents him from completing anything he starts. When he lands an 'If Come' deal with a major Hollywood producer, he's finally forced to focus on his work and not give into the strange malaise gripping him. In order to ever move ahead in the movie business, he must complete the pilot episode of his proposed TV series, Angel Inn. If his producer is able to sell the series, Zam will be a very rich man. Everything he has worked for can be his.

Paralysed by his depression, he finds unusual solace in the form of his arch nemesis, Dominic Glass—a surgeon turned super successful screenwriter…and the man who rewrote Zam's hit screenplay for his own glory.

Can Zam overcome the depression Dominic calls acedia, which threatens to derail his whole life? Can he move on from his long time sex buddy Jason? And what about these new feelings he has for Dominic in spite of their rocky history? Will Zam get it together…or will Dominic once again walk away with all the credit for something Zam created?

Jing dreams of a yuletide filled with sex and candy…but so far the upcoming Winter Fae festivities look to be filled with humbugs…

It isn’t easy being the literal redheaded step-child of the grand Fairy King, Oberon. But frantically busy Jing, the Unseelie Court’s only male sugar plum fairy, has a chance to redeem himself in Oberon’s eyes. All he has to do is invite a sexy, frolicsome guest to the annual Winter Fae Fest—a wicked, wanton holiday celebration.

When he happens upon a handsome, red-haired fairy in the forest, Jing senses a kindred spirit in the softly spoken William. The mysterious but captivating fairy at first declines Jing’s invitation, then accepts.

At the festivities, however, Oberon recognises William as a Fire Fae and goes berserk. Fire faeries, who have a tendency to be tricksters and mischief makers, once set his pants ablaze and singed his hair and brows. Oberon sees William as being dangerous and subversive—a lunatic—and Fire Fae are not welcome.

William rushes to assure Jing he’s not bad—he never wants to hurt anyone. He’s just misunderstood…

Full

If you enjoyed Gasp! by Z. A. Maxfield, or A Younger Man by Cameron Dane, then this book might just be for you! Make this one of your top romance novels of the year!

Barney loves food. He loves to love food, but food doesn’t love him. It has ruled his life and wrecked his relationships. Will he ever feel...full?

Barney Calloway is a super-successful voice-over actor in Hollywood. He is, however, extremely overweight. He has struggled with his weight his entire life. Things come to a head when he demolishes half of his sister's birthday cake before she can even set eyes on it.

Leaving her house after her party is over, he finds a business card tucked under his windshield wiper with only one word:

Full.

On the reverse side of the card is a toll-free number which, out of curiosity, he finally calls. A woman's voice tells him his order has been processed. Order? What order? He awakens the next morning to find he's lost one hundred and three pounds. Overnight, he's gone from being a lard ass to a hot ass and nothing will be the same again...and unbelievably, all the changes aren't necessarily for the better. His family members’ reactions are weird and his old love, Diego, really struggles with the new Barney.

Will Barney ever have the life and the love he craves? And will he ever really feel...full?

Daniel B. Johns - Mirrors In The Attic - My name is Stanley Nelson and I am a psychic working with the Boston Police. My notoriety comes from a voice in my head. When evil threatens my life I run to free the only person who can help me, Luchien. Along the way, I meet Deke Bridges, a Nantucket handyman who harbors a secret that ties us together. Will good win out over evil? Can love survive no matter what the cost?

My name is Stanley Nelson...wish me luck.

Kimber Kahn - Fated - Home. Family. To most, those words bring thoughts of safety and joy. To Ryan Daniels, they bring guilt and pain. Returning to the place he grew up, the place he left behind, he finds something he never bargained for and didn't know he was missing until the afternoon he bumped into Stuart Vaughn.

CR Guiliano - Unexpected Winter - Abbott Wilson couldn’t believe he’d finally made the trek into the Arctic, above the Arctic Circle, in the dead of winter. A dream come true, a challenge to himself that he finally mastered. What he hadn’t counted on was getting trapped in a deep ravine and the masculine and gorgeous man that saved him.

Julie Lynn Hayes - Son of a Preacher Man - Levi Thornton is the closeted gay son of homophobic televangelist Marshall Thornton. So what’s the perfect gift for the father who never cared? Levi’s going to find a yummy young man on Christmas Eve, fuck him all night long and six ways to Sunday.

Patricia Logan - Over the Road - When Trace Martin, Kyle Kincaid and Ryan Harris plan to take a winter getaway, they decide to try out RV camping. What better location to go in the dead of winter than Aspen, Colorado to hit the slopes. What they didn't count on was what it would be like to be crammed into a tiny bed with a generator that doesn't work.

Donya Lynne - Snowed In Truth or Dare - Rick's life isn't what he had imagined it would be in his mid-thirties. His wife is cold and resentful, his children treat him like a figurehead instead of a father, and his sex life is nonexistent. A hunting trip with the guys the weekend after Thanksgiving is just what the doctor ordered for him to reclaim his man card and give him back a sense of dignity. But when a blizzard snows in the four men, a game of poker turns into a game of Truth or Dare that's anything but kid stuff.

Ike Rose - December's Dilemma. - The Master of My Passion series. started in the story A Midsummer's Night Pickup in the Hot Summer Fun anthology, continues. On their first Thanksgiving together as a couple, actor and singer Hans Rath discovers that complications can result from his being of a different faith than his older lover, world-famous playwright and author Theodore (Teddy) Behr.

T.A. Webb - His Name was Harley Manfield - They were the Three Musketeers and friends for almost twenty years. But when tragedy strikes the group, how will they be able to move forward this Christmas?

C.A., or Cory to his friends, hates dogs. Hates them. Especially little ones, which are usually smarter than big dogs and know there's something...unusual about Cory. And of course there is. He's a cat shifter longing to get back into his natural state and run with the wind on top of the Aspen peaks.

When he meets Bryan Braun he senses something different about him, as well. Bryan's no ordinary ski fanatic who's been working too hard and in need of a break. Cory is certain Bryan is a werewolf. His natural enemy! Can a cat and a dog get along? Can they have fun in the snow? And beyond?

Sara York - Changing Currency - When Max put's on his evening gowns and high heels, stripping away his masculine identity, changing into the gorgeous drag queen, Maxine the Devilicious, the fun begins. When he runs into his boss from the bank the game changes. Max has a secret and it's about to come out, changing his life, changing his work, changing his everything.

Tall With Room

If you enjoyed Bourbon Affair by Eliza Gayle, or A Werewolf's Soldier by Kayley Scott, then this book might just be for you! Make this one of your top romance novels of the year!

Adriano is going home to Waldo, Florida, a town famous for having one of two official US speed traps and a flea market. Not much else is going on... Or is it?

A celebrated chef, Adriano has had to quit his job at a posh Beverly Hills restaurant because during his recovery from stage four cancer, chemo killed his taste buds. He can't even taste his own cuisine. About the only thing that penetrates the dull sensation is coffee, so he's bought a cafe in Waldo, hoping to find a new life in spite of his memory of it being a rigidly conservative town.

Looking forward to recuperating and spending time his mom, Adriano soon finds that Colin Mackenzie—the first man he ever loved, the only man he has ever wanted—never left Waldo. He apparently hasn't forgotten Adriano either. But Colin, who once seduced then dumped him, seems to be playing games. He keeps coming into the cafe ordering his coffee—tall with room...for milk—but he doesn't seem to have room for Adriano. Soon, the love they once shared is re-ignited in an explosive way, but what is going on in Waldo? Why do things seem so...haunted by the past?

Summer's Dawn-Sue Brown-Seth spends his summers watching the boys play ball at the beach. His girls are desperate to attract the attention of the hunks. Seth watches them too, content to let others think he's looking at the girls, until he realizes one of the boys is watching him. Summers pass, and Seth and Joel continue to watch each other, yet it's never the right time to acknowledge their attraction.

A Summer Night Fling-Raine Delight-Cal Larson wasn't expecting to find a hot sexy man stuck in a tree. When he meets Alex, sparks fly and these two find that love is waiting to claim them. Except Alex has a secret...one that may bring danger to Cal's doorstep. Can Cal find it in his heart to accept Alex and let this summer fling turn into something much more?

Working Stiff-Sara York-Josh finds himself out of work, desperate he takes a construction job. His muscles are sore but that doesn't keep him from noticing Zane. Josh steers clear of Zane until they are thrust together.

In the Heat of the Night-Lisa Worrall-The heat wave gripping Southern California has driven Nick and Oliver apart—as far as their sleeping arrangements are concerned. Despite Nick’s complaints, Oliver heads for the downstairs guest room. In the middle of the night Nick is awoken by noise. Will he find the burglar he suspects, or something more surprising?

Summer House-Jaxx Steele-Marcus’s twin brother asked him to take his place for the weekend at their summer house in Key Largo. Marcus looked forward to a weekend by the pool, but it’s what he didn’t expect to find that made his impromptu vacation one of the best he ever had.

Summer In The Wild-CR Guiliano-Gillian Daleth knew he was a rare breed. No werewolf wanted a Delta in their pack. Gil spent years researching to find out why he was not welcome. He considered himself a loner. Until he met Jeriah Peirson. An Omega. But Gil couldn’t mate with Jeriah. Not without an Alpha. And the only Alpha Gil knew was Laramie Cane, who had no interest in a mate, or mates in Gil’s case.

One Night in Paradise With You-Rawiya-Peter Galley is a successful businessman on a well-deserved vacation in Hawaii. With one night to fulfill his fantasy of sex with a man, he meets Cruz Vallejo, a gorgeous town hunk. Peter immediately wants to make this man his conquest but will Cruz even notice, and if he does will he give Pete the chance?

Air Bear-A.J. Llewellyn-Hawaiian-born Kappy is thrilled to be back in the land of his ancestors with the man of his dreams, Jason, an Air Bear--Military Trooper--stationed at Wheeler Air Force Field. When they drive along the once-forbidden H3 Freeway, Jason is amused that Kappy seems so frightened about displeasing the old island gods. His Air Bear is not convinced that local myth is true. Jason is determined to prove the legend is just superstition...Or is it?

Hot Summer Hogs-Patricia Logan-Bikers have gathered in Sturgis for the world's largest bike rally. Cade Littlebear and his husband Jake Maxfield join the sexy crowd for their first ever bike rally. When Cade is challenged by a sexy ex, Jake is there to support his lover and keep his 'spirits' up. How he chooses to keep Cade's 'head' in the game, will leave you wanting more.

A Midsummer's Night Pick-up-Ike Rose-Hans Rotmusen is a young blond whose family kicked him out when they discovered he was gay. Living in a small apartment with his lover, Jonathan, was great, until Jon decides to marry a woman. After two years alone, Hans is horny as hell, so he goes cruising in Central Park on Midsummer's Night of 1978. Under the magical moonlight, Goldilocks encounters Pappa Bear deep in the woods. Following the most passionate kiss of his life, Hans is helplessly attracted to the gruff, rugged stud, but when they get to Pappa Bear's Den, he discovers a big surprise. Will Pappa Bear be Goldilocks' true love, or just a Midsummer’s Night Pickup?

What would you do if you took your family for a fun day at Universal Studios, watched your husband and son go on a ride and when they return... they are completely different people?

For Jack Connors it's a nightmare when he tries to convince park security, police, and then hospital staff that the two people claiming to be his loved ones are impostors. Worse... he has no proof. They are far from home and the only photo in his wallet is that of the man and child from the ride.

Something sinister is afoot but Jack isn't quite sure what... or why his whole world has just gone haywire.

It isn't easy being gay and single in Hollywood. Darren's met the hottest, sexiest guy ever. Jude's dead. Or undead, but you can't have everything. When Darren meets concert cellist Jude, he's enraptured. Having gone as long as he has without sex, Jude is not only the most passionate lover he's ever experienced, but he has an unusual side effect to his sleeping disorder. Jude rarely sleeps and has a raging libido that won't quit. Normally that would be a good thing, but there are some strange things going on with moody, secretive Jude. His teeth and hair seem to be falling out. He also bleeds sometimes. Devastated, Darren consults his writing partner, Titch, and his agent, Suzanne. They ponder the problem. Is it Viagra? Or is it crack or some other illicit drug? Jude is offended. It's a family problem, he assures Darren. His mom has it, so does his dad sometimes. Darren wants to believe him and tries not to stress. What kind of family problem does he have? HIV? Hepatitis? Leprosy? He becomes increasingly worried when Jude refuses to eat or drink and often disappears. Soon, Titch tells Darren he, too, is pretty ripe. With a huge TV deal pending for a reality show, With This Ring, Darren needs to decide just how far he is willing to go for love, a hit TV show and for a wedding ring? ??

Louisiana Lust - D.J. Manly

Love in the Bayou sometimes takes the most unusual turn. Hunger for blood changes everything. Moudoca is the Voodoo king of New Orleans and he is running a lucrative business...creating the perfect men for a group of sleazy pimps. Only thing is, it involves murder and these perfect men are only good for a short time because they start to decay...and crave blood. These perfect men are zombies. When pretty boy, Craven Beaumont, has the audacity to reject the advances of the Voodoo king, there will be terrible consequences. Moudoca is highly insulted and wants revenge. He knows that Beaumont's' exceptional good looks will fetch a fair price so he puts him in the bottom of the swamp and begins the process which will transform him into zombie slut. What the Voodoo king doesn't know is that Craven isn't alone at the bottom of the swamp. Something else lurks there, resting, waiting, and his hunger for blood will change everything. Love in the Bayou sometimes takes the most unusual turn.

Salting Zombies - Stephani Hecht

The zombies are loose and Avery's in trouble because he's never looked so yummy. Avery Lyons has a problem. He's fallen head over heels for Christian. Christian's not just any guy, however, but someone who died in 1984 and has just recently been brought back to life. But they say you can't pick who you love and that's true, even if that special somebody is a zombie. To be fair though, Christian is the only zombie who has a soul instead of a mad craving for a human smorgasbord. Still he does like to bite. On the run from the nefarious organization, BOKOR and a bunch of evil zombies, Christian and Avery join forces with a rat-tag group of rebels. Even as they continue to fight for their lives, the men grow closer together. But is Christian as good as he as appears, or is he just another brain-munching zombie waiting for the opportunity to attack?

Mating Tomeo

In 1946 Hawaii, Tomeo Yamaguchi harbors a secret that would be considered shameful by his traditional Japanese family—he aches for the caress of other men.

Which makes it particularly devastating when Tomeo’s father hires a tanomoshi—a matchmaker—to find a bride for his son.

Tomeo spends time with the tanomoshi, Shin Yamada, and as the men come to know one another, deep feelings emerge, the transition from friends to lovers inevitable. They fall into a clandestine affair, their hushed and hidden lovemaking as beautiful and breathless in their eyes as it is torrid in the eyes of others.

More time spent worshipping Tomeo’s body means less time finding him a suitable bride. Shin’s forsaking his duty…but mating Tomeo is worth every stolen second.

Book Length: Short Novel

Moby's Dick

Burke Matthews and his wily team of experts on board the salvage cargo ship, The Brigadoon, have hauled everything from Russian nuclear submarines to stranded catamarans. After having spent almost two weeks in the sunny port of Palermo, Italy trying to win the bid to salvage half a million gallons of oil from a distressed cruise ship half-sunk off the coast, Burke starts to worry about the trapped fuel in the ship's hull.

As families of the missing passengers urge the country's environmental minister to hold off the salvage as the search for their loved ones continues, Burke knows with each passing day, hope of life diminishes. There's another problem too. The Bella Donna has crashed in the middle of a marine reserve and is on the verge of fatally contaminating the water that also goes to the main water lines for the entire Amalfi Coast. It's an environmental disaster waiting to happen.

Allowed to drill finally, he is astonished to hear plaintive knocking from an engine room above. He breaks down the door to find a sick, but very handsome French Canadian waiter trapped for twelve days. Gabriel Bergeron is one of the sexiest guys Burke's ever seen...and he soon learns as he visits the man in a local hospital, one seriously hung dude... Pages: 142 pp.

Mirrors

Aaron Mayer has lived in poverty, while his identical twin Troy enjoyed a privileged existence. When Aaron unexpectedly hears from Troy, he discovers his twin has committed suicide. In a letter, Troy offers Aaron the chance of living his life...

Troy and Aaron Mayer, identical twins separated from the age of two, have lived wildly different lives. Aaron has struggled taking care of their alcoholic, gambling-addicted mother, leaving his finances in disarray. Troy, living with their father, experienced luxury. He calls Aaron asking to see him after years of silence. When Aaron arrives at his brother's boat, his twin has committed suicide. In his farewell note, Troy offers Aaron his car keys, his money and... his life of riches.

Aaron, on the run from the loan sharks he owes money to, finds his new life is even worse. Everywhere he turns he discovers somebody Troy devastated... including his handsome, charismatic husband, Dave Alvarez, who is on the verge of leaving Troy. Can Aaron turn things around for Troy... and for himself? Or are some mirrors just meant to be broken?

Stride has sent Zero back to Earth in an effort to keep him safe, but there is no safety anywhere. Evil soon follows and so must Stride...

Stride is forced to embrace his new life as Lord of the Underworld. Being in charge of some of the most evil entities the world has ever known comes at a price—the love he desires with Zero. Banishing Zero to the Earth without him, without any memory of Stride, Stride hopes for a new and peaceful life for Zero.

Honouring his destiny, Stride impregnates his sex shifter wife, Tressa who delivers his precious son, Akakios—a magnificent half demon, half vampire. Though Stride adores his child, he quickly realizes the baby isn't safe with him. There are those who wish to control and manipulate the fast-growing boy. He sends Tressa and Akakios to Earth, hoping they can find peace and contentment. They find anything but... Novella

Stride makes a hasty and cataclysmic decision to take his position as ruler of the underworld, sending Zero to a new and hopefully happy life far from the evil machinations of Planet X.

Stride takes control of Planet X, eliminating the vampire queen and taking over full control. However, he can't do this with Zero by his side and after some scorching lovemaking, sends his blood slave to a new life on Earth.

As Stride grapples with the reality that his demonic reign entails, Zero lands on a strange and different Earth that resembles nothing he remembers. He discovers that the great final war has given rise to a whole new race of beings and, forced to plunge into a new existence, all he can think about is...Stride. Novella

Tinder and Jason are back in Honolulu, determined to face the future...but an unexpected friend from Tinder’s Hotel Street days turns their lives upside down.

Now that Jason is home, safe from his horrific mission aboard the SS Malama, he and Tinder once again return to Honolulu to help in the rebuilding of Pearl Harbor. Jason, who faces a military tribunal on the fate of the cargo ship’s lost crew members, suffers from traumatic nightmares as a result of his ordeal. Tinder, determined to nurture and protect his lover, is devastated when the truth of the crew’s capture and Jason’s dramatic escape is revealed.

Determined to face the future with renewed determination and courage, the two men also soon learn that fate has some other new surprises in store for them. In the ensuing months of WWII Honolulu, Jason and Tinder grow closer and closer in spite of hate—and help—from unexpected quarters, their abiding hearts rediscover the meaning of aloha. Novel

Nibiru Vampire Warriors - Chapter One
- Book one in the Blood Slave: Nibiru Vampire Warriors Series

Zero struggles to resist becoming Stride’s blood slave but can he also resist the burning lust the cold hearted fiend is arousing in his very soul?

Nibiru, known by some as Planet X, is poised to strike earth and wipe out everything in its path. Stride, a solitary vampire with powers delivered down to him through his sorceress mother, senses its arrival. And he intends to survive…to escape to the planet itself in hopes that he will find a blood source there.

What Stride finds is a desolate place with no life in sight. Then he sees him, the vampire who sought him out on earth just before the disaster struck, the one who told him…there are only two. Only two vampires with no humans to be found means only one thing, only one of them can survive.

Zero knows it’s only a matter of time before he becomes Stride’s blood slave. His ship crashed on Nibiru, and his human lover perished, leaving him alone and vulnerable. And Stride is tracking him in a deadly game of cat and mouse, determined to survive.

Reader Advisory: This book is part of an ongoing serial series, best read in order as it continues.

Nibiru Vampire Warriors - Chapter Three
- Book three in the Blood Slave: Nibiru Vampire Warriors Series

In the third chapter of Blood Slave, nothing on this alien planet is as it appears to be. Danger and death lurk at every turn. Zero discovers new and frightening aspects to Stride, even as he finds himself more and more hopelessly ensnared by the voracious vampire.

Chapter Three sees Zero taken captive in a terrifying underground warren for blood slaves. He encounters a surprising jailer in charge of ‘milking’ the blood donors for the vampire queen. Zero seems doomed to a painful fate until he is rescued by Stride.

On the run now from his captors who badly want Zero’s blood, the two vampires find deadly traps with almost every step. Even so, Zero alternately resists and embraces Stride’s sexual dominance. Becoming lovers finally, their passion rages quickly, but soon turns to panic with their savage jailer hot on their trail. The strange planet on which they have become stranded reveals new and increasingly weird elements, including a huge passenger ship on which they sail to safety...or do they?

Reader Advisory: This book is part of an ongoing serial series, best read in order as it continues.

Nibiru Vampire Warriors - Chapter Four
- Book four in the Blood Slave: Nibiru Vampire Warriors Series

Stride and Zero are on the run from the Vampire Queen, who keeps presenting herself in various disguises. Having failed in her attempt to capture and control Stride, her own son, she resorts to other, deadlier games in trying to divide and conquer the two vampire warriors.

In Chapter four, the two vampires have survived the lure of the ghost ship’s deadly grip, only to arrive in a snow-covered town that looks like a winter wonderland—with no beginning or end to it. They come to a small, brightly lit cottage and step inside, to face potentially fatal consequences. Zero is afflicted with a horrible ailment, and Stride is forced to confront the were-lover he once cherished and couldn’t save...

Stride and Zero must rely on each other and learn to trust one another. As increasingly tense as the battle on Niburu has become, the two vampires find that their growing passion is not only their strongest, binding force, but in and of itself, the kind of Eden the planet on which they’re stranded was supposed to be.

Reader Advisory: This book is part of an ongoing serial series, best read in order as it continues.

Nibiru Vampire Warriors - Chapter Five
- Book five in the Blood Slave: Nibiru Vampire Warriors Series

When an old lover returns from the dead, is he real or is this more malevolent magic from the Vampire Queen of Planet X?

Stride and Zero battle nonstop evil forces in various guises, whilst struggling with their growing feelings and dependency on one another. Both vampires are shocked when Zero’s dead human lover, Daken, turns up claiming he never died and that he was saved by blood on the ground after Zero left him. Stride doesn’t believe him.

Zero however, tormented by feelings of guilt, remorse and also fondness for the former commander of his starship fleet, wants to believe the man is real and is happy to see him again. He wants to give Daken a chance but Stride is infuriated. Could he possibly be jealous? The strange planet on which they are stranded suddenly morphs, transporting the vampires and Daken into yet another unusual odyssey, plunging them into a new and potentially deadly adventure on the eve of a legendary natural catastrophe.

Reader Advisory: This book is part of an ongoing serial series, best read in order as it continues.

Back to Black

Honolulu detective Quinn Novak has to enter another realm to find scorching hot sex...how far does he have to travel to find true love?

Quinn Novak is a Honolulu Police Department detective working an unusual case. A string of robberies have taken place in homes tented for termites in the economically depressed town of Makaha Beach. A gang of thieves appears to be trailing pest control units, then breaking in...so Quinn is assigned watching over a particularly important dignitary's home late one night. Quinn has a problem however. He's afraid of the dark.

He's never told a soul and seems to be coping with his phobia until he spies two men breaking in and follows them in, in spite of the dangers of the pesticide - and the dark.

Once inside the house he appears to enter another realm...one filled with hot men who all want...him. Quinn has the most incredible threesome of his life, but then must leave the house. How the heck does he get back in? And can he? Now suddenly he wants to get back to black...back to the dark and the two men he left inside the house...can he ever find them again?

Ghost Flower
- Banpaia

Feng and Russell have made a life together in LA's Chinatown, except that Feng has no memory of the centuries-old vampire, the imperious, mysterious Banpaia, who abducted, then returned them and dozens of other men to their everyday lives.

Feng had fallen in love with Banpaia, who also fell in love with Feng, only to allow the man he'd chosen to be his life mate to return to Earth and try to live a human existence. As Feng's happiness and very life force ebb away each day, Russell is growing stronger. He remembers the great vampire and uses his memories to great manga. Time may be growing short for an increasingly despondent Feng unless he can remember his one true love and go to him willingly, before the next Halloween.

Zero is transported back in time, taken as a slave to the vampire lord and encounters Stride, who has yet to meet him.

In the exciting seventh instalment of Blood Slave, Zero is transported back in time and taken prisoner, made a slave to Stride’s father, the vampire Lord. There he meets Stride, who has no memory of him. Zero must wrestle with his heart. He knows that Stride will soon fall in love with a werewolf who nurses him back to health after he is wounded in battle.

How can he watch the man he loves share the bed of another? Does he intervene and change the course of history...and run the chance of losing Stride in the future... or does he let history play out and break his own heart?

Reader Advisory: This book is best read in sequence as part of a series

Nibiru Vampire Warriors - Chapter Two
- Book two in the Blood Slave: Nibiru Vampire Warriors Series

Zero finds being Stride's Blood Slave creates havoc for them both. They need each other for survival, but now Zero must also cope with his deepening love for the seemingly impervious Vampire Warrior.

In Book 2, surprises are in store for Zero whose dead lover, Daken, speaks to him, guiding him as the supposedly doomed planet they are on actually plays host to a multitude of hybrid communities, including a blood slave tribe serving a vampire queen. The slaves in question are a shock to both Stride and Zero whose push-pull relationship becomes even more aggressive now that Zero seems to have awoken long-dormant feelings in Stride.

The two vampires find lethal enemies at every turn. Who can they trust as danger lurks with each and every step? With the past coming back with a vengeance for Stride, an old enemy proves to be a formidable foe. Zero too, must face certain truths...or face a fate worse than being Stride’s blood slave.

Reader Advisory:This book is part of an ongoing serial series, best read in order as it continues.

Baking the best cupcakes in San Francisco is Daine’s true calling…who knew that the tastiest cakes could lead to a talent for danger?

Phillip Sedgwick is a lawyer who works for an unusual law firm: Arden, Bainbridge, Chinook and Damek is the supernatural world’s most prestigious company, protecting, and often prosecuting, members of the supernatural world for various crimes and infractions. His latest case involves the owner of Fabulous Cupcakes, Daine Paradis, who has been accused of abuse of his superpowers.

Daine is proud that he’s been able to keep his father’s bakery going and has made it a huge success. Weird things start happening, and hard work no longer seems enough to stay in business. When he meets Phillip the sparks fly, but will the two men be able to solve the case before everything goes up in flames?

Reader Advisory: This book contains mouth-watering descriptions of cupcakes and hot references to other foods.

Nibiru Vampire Warriors - Chapter Six
- Book six in the Blood Slave: Nibiru Vampire Warriors Series

Stride and Zero find that being sent back to ancient times means revisiting old wars and opening up old wounds...

When we last saw Stride and Zero, they had plummeted back in time to Pompeii’s last day when the town became buried under a volcanic eruption. Somehow catapulted into the Coliseum, Stride must now face lions and an unexpected foe in the form of a demon.

Meanwhile, Zero comes face to face with Stride’s vile and villainous mother, The Vampire Queen, who keeps Zero hostage in the stands with her, forcing him to watch Stride fight for his life. Can Zero and Stride escape the death she wishes to bestow on them both?

Reader Advisory:This book is part of an ongoing serial series, best read in order as it continues.

Manacled
- Mingo McCloud series, #6

It's wedding bells in Waikiki! Honolulu's hottest forensic accountant, Mingo McCloud is set to marry his lover, Francois. Friends and family are coming from all over the world and just as the intrepid pair gets ready to say I do, they don't. A mysterious woman shows up at the service claiming to be the long lost wife of& not formerly single and straight Francois but Mingo!

Mingo is stunned. Not the least because he's never dated a woman, much less married one. The whole family's now in an uproar, especially when the shady lady produces wedding pictures and love letters allegedly written by Mingo. He and Francois are determined to unravel the plot. For Mingo, the shocks don't stop coming. Seems he has a trail of busted female hearts behind him, as well as some serious grifting. What the heck is going on? Is he the victim of a conspiracy, or is something else afoot? Are parts of him awake when he is sleeping and doing things he knows nothing about?

Note to readers: This title is Number 6 in the Mingo McCloud series, but can easily be read as a stand-alone book.

Fixated
- Mingo McCloud, #5

Mingo McCloud has a lot going on. Dealing with his private life just got more complicated now that he and his lover, Francois, have a fulltime teenager in the house. And soon Mingo has a new foe on his hands: the banshee goddess of the Seven Bridges. Yep, only an island guy like Mingo could wind up tangling with an ancient deity in what should be a routine murder investigation.

But that’s not all. Hawaii has just passed the same-sex civil union bill. Will Francois give up his resistance to getting hitched and pop the question? And what about their son, Ferric? What does his new obsession with a teenage surfing queen have to do with a shark, bikini workouts, pole dancing and…wedding cake?

Note to readers: This title is Number 5 in the Mingo McCloud series, but can easily be read as a stand-alone book.

The Sins of Summer weaves a general thread of deception loosely tying these tales together. Envy, lust and wrath are explored in these scorching m/m tales involving action, burning hot sex and sinful adventures that will have you cranking up the Air Conditioning.

'Mayze' by D.J.Manly

D.J. Manly tackles the sin of lust in his paranormal tale

Jas’s joy of being reunited with his sister is short lived when one night she is murdered by a madman, a madman his foster brother claims is a vampire. Sent out on a mission to find a monster, Jas meets Mayze, and he’s like no one he’s ever met before. Is he the monster who killed his sister, or could he just be the answer to his prayers?

'Burnt Island' by A.J.Llewellyn

A.J. Llewellyn tackles the sin of jealousy in Burnt Island

Manhattan-based private investigator, Leo Gannet, accepts an assignment to tail his father’s boyfriend, theater director Thane Covey on a clandestine trip to a tiny Greek island. With only three hundred inhabitants and four miles to cover, Leo worries about pulling off his mission. He soon discovers he's got bigger problems: Thane Covey is the sexiest man he's ever seen. And he's not alone. Leo soon becomes insanely jealous, then very worried. To top it off, Thane also seems to have somebody else's attention...a hitman's.

'Summer Escape' by Serena Yates

In Summer Escape, Serena Yates tackles the sin of wrath.

New York banker Carlton Jaymes Pearce receives an ultimatum from his doctor: accept a lifestyle change and early retirement to reduce his astronomical stress levels or be prepared to have a heart attack - soon. Being only thirty-eight, Carlton isn't ready to die and decides to finally learn how to sail. Neither he nor his private sailing instructor, Troy Nicholls, are ready for the almost instant attraction that leads to a hot and heavy summer fling. But all is not well because someone from Carlton's past appears on the scene to exact revenge for a perceived injustice. Carlton and Troy are kidnapped and left on a deserted island. Will the mysterious man's wrath cost them their lives

Peridot Dreams
- A Wizard in Waikiki # 2

Ancient Tahitian wizard Konu has settled into daily life in Waikiki, Hawaii. Entrusted with a sacred mission to bring healing and hope to the islands, he begins to grieve his past more and more. Ripped away five hundred years ago from his lover, Loho, he has found a new relationship with Jason, who runs a local homeless shelter. But things are not easy. Jason is stressed, busy and not easy to connect with.

Things take a strange turn when Konu finds himself in old Waikiki as it was five hundred years ago. There is Loho waiting for him. Konu wants nothing more than to be in his lover’s arms, but he loves Jason, too. Then a young girl vanishes, having followed Konu into the mystical realm. Her disappearance causes a great spiritual catastrophe only Konu can avert, but how does he get back inside those beautiful, brilliant, peridot dreams?

Gypsy Heart
- Book two in the Pearl Harbor Series

Tinder McCartney thought he left behind his life as a gay male prostitute but soon learns returning to his old life may be the only way to save the man he loves...Tinder McCartney and his lover, Jason Qui, are adjusting to life in war-torn Hawaii following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Settling at first in Maui with Tinder’s father, they go back to Honolulu to meet with members of the new military government regarding their plans to blow up a major access road in Lahaina that would leave the islanders in Maui stranded and without access to much-needed shipments coming into the island.

Back in Honolulu, Tinder and Jason are dismayed to see how much their beloved home has changed in just a few short weeks. Jason accepts a dangerous sea mission feeling that as a Chinese immigrant, he needs to prove his loyalty to the US. He and the crew of the ship disappear, and are presumed to have been taken by Japanese forces.

Tinder must decide what to do to help his lover. When presented with the opportunity to return to his old way of life in exchange for information that will help him rescue his lover, he must decide how far he is willing to go to heal his gypsy heart and save the man he loves...

Reader Advisory: This book is best read in sequence as part of a series

Pele's Fire
- Phantom Lover, #16

Kimo Wilder, Honolulu’s hottest kahuna, longs for the simple life. He adores his husband, Lopaka, and their three rambunctious children, but sometimes he dreams of peace and quiet. When he and Lopaka watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on TV, Kimo becomes obsessed with taking it easy. He longs to relax, think about nothing more than having sex with Lopaka and eating candy. He reckons he could have been a swell fry cook on Venus…only Goddess Pele has other ideas.

After a frightening dream in which Kimo glimpses how his life would be had he never met Lopaka, he eases up on his workload and takes his husband out on a date to a local movie theater. It’s not something they normally do, neither is it a place they’ve frequented before. They encounter some unusual ghosts, which everybody but Lopaka can see and a haunting that, well…challenges all of Kimo’s notions of having a vacation…

Romeo and Julius

Romeo Quiles has accepted a job online in lush and sunny Kauai. However, upon his arrival in the Hawaiian Islands, he discovers the job is a scam. The company that hired him has emptied his bank accounts and he must scramble to either return home to Cupertino, California, and certain unemployment, or to give paradise a chance.

He’s thrilled when he lands another job, ironically at the same resort hotel used by the scam artists to lure him to Hawaii. Except that Romeo’s fallen for hotter than hot Julius who just took on the job Romeo wanted—and he’s not a very nice boss. To top it off, there’s secrets. Secrets galore. There’s ancient fire knife dancing, mysterious chants and an old blind man Romeo comes to cherish, but love rips at his heart. Can Romeo and Julius break the curse that separates them? Or will they wind up apart?

Mated
- Mingo McCloud 4

Mingo and Francois thought they'd be safe from catastrophe in beautiful Connecticut. Even on the mainland, Hawaii's hottest crime-fighting couple can't stay out of trouble...

Mingo McCloud, his lover, Francois, and their son, Ferric, are in Hartford, Connecticut for their best friends' wedding. Mingo and Ferric are carjacked on the way to picking up the brides' wedding cake. Francois, furious that he wasn't there to protect his family, drops the super-secret case he's been working on to take Mingo and Ferric for a quick, sun-drenched trip to his birthplace of St. Martin in the Caribbean.

Unbelievably, Mingo and Ferric encounter the same two men who carjacked them in Hartford...and it soon emerges that they are connected to Francois' latest security case. Francois is now hell-bent on revenge, whilst Mingo must deal with long-dormant feelings for his ex-lover, Kaolin, who is on vacation in St. Martin. He wants Mingo back and will do anything to win his heart...even to marry him. But there's another guy hovering, too, hunky FBI agent Sage Brantley, who wants another hot threesome with Mingo and Francois. Who will die? Who will get bedded? Are Mingo and Francois fated to be mated...and were the carjackers' guns made in Taiwan?

Eivissa

Demetrio has found the good life, putting his devastating past behind him and investing his hard-earned money into a gay bar on the island of Ibiza, or as the locals insist on calling it, Eivissa. With celebrities and other stunning beautiful men roaming the hot-spot island, Demetrio thinks he’s found a slice of heaven. When a strange man’s small boat capsizes in the Mediterranean, once he’s rescued, he seems to be attracted to Demetrio.

The man, however, has amnesia. He has no memory of his name, his life and has no ID. His boat is registered to a Philip Gordon, but the handsome stranger says he doesn’t think it’s his name. After picking the name Océano, the Spanish word for the sea, he and Demetrio begin an impassioned affair that soon turns disastrous. Océano may not be amnesiac. He may not be the good guy he seems to be and…he may not even be gay.

Sunday in the Park with George

Lucas Addison's life is all mapped out. A rising chess superstar, he is an orderly, fastidious kind of guy whose reputation as a jerk precedes him. He's resigned to a career–filled life until he spots fallen movie idol Kevin Morgan in the crowd watching him play chess in a tournament one cold, but sunny afternoon in Central Park. Kevin's exquisite good looks and haunting eyes tear at him. What happened to this guy and why did he walk away from the world? And why does Lucas think he can…and must save him?

Lucas becomes enthralled by the actor who walked off the stage in the middle of a benefit performance of his one-man show on Broadway the previous year. The one time million-dollar-a-movie man appears to be homeless and rebuffs Lucas's attempts at friendship, hurting Lucas's feelings. All Lucas cares about is that New York is still in the grip of fierce late winter storms and the nighttimes are below freezing. Can he get Kevin inside, out of the cold? Could they possibly become lovers?

Things start to defrost between them when Kevin accepts his invitation to see a matinee performance of the classic play, Sunday in the Park with George…

Italian Weddings and Funerals

Luca Dell’Oro has developed an unusual but successful event planning business. His specialty is Italian Weddings and Funerals, which is also the name of his highly sought-after Mendocino, California business. He accepts an unusual assignment, to fly to Rome, Italy, to cater a funeral for an Italian opera singer. Nothing goes right from the minute he accepts the assignment. Cookware goes missing and his most trusted employees mysteriously can’t go with him, leaving him with a motley crew for a staff.

Once in Italy, Luca is stunned to find that the grieving widower happens to be a man Luca met and lost…to the deceased woman – in sixteenth century Italy. Luca has good reasons for still being around. He’s a vampire and all his recipes and magical ingredients have been carefully cultivated over the years. But just who the hell…or what the hell is Franco Savelli and does he want Luca or does he want to kill him?

Black Point Forever

Matt and Thomas have the life of their dreams. Successful writers and movie producers, they are the proud parents of baby Rose Elise Carter who is a dream child until she suddenly becomes gravely ill. Diagnosed with a rare bone marrow disease, none of their family members are compatible donors for the little girl. Her surrogate mom has disappeared and can’t be found. Rose’s cousin Daphne is a match but is deemed too young to withstand the painful donor process.

When Matt bumps into Thomas’s long-lost love, Daniel, in a fit of torment he confesses their nightmare. Daniel offers to submit himself. He’s a match. Will Thomas fall once again for Daniel or will love, like Black Point, belong to Matt…forever?

A Wizard In Waikiki
- Phantom Lover

Beachgoers on a hot day in Waikiki are stunned when a tall, handsome, island man rises from the ocean and strides, naked across the sand. He walks straight to the small, ringed enclosure containing four Wizard Stones. Positioned between the beach and the foot traffic of Kalakaua Avenue, most tourists never notice them. However, Konu, the naked man, becomes agitated at the sight of a young Asian girl draping her beach towel over the wizard stones. He flings her towel to the ground, inciting a near-riot. Konu however, is oblivious. He’s come a long way, from Tahiti and is one of the ancient wizards whose power was infused into the stones four hundred years ago.

With the invisible battle between good and evil at its peak, Konu and the other wizards have been dispatched to help balance the power. He lands in modern-day Waikiki, stunned by the changes – and also, to find he is alone. Seeking the signs he’s supposed to be sent, he’s surprised when a cop tries to arrest him for indecent exposure. Then the young girl’s grandfather tells the officer the strapping islander is with him. Konu has no choice but to go with him. Konu soon discovers the old man thinks the ancient sorcerer is a homeless lunatic. Will the ancient forces of evil beat him? Or can this Wizard in Waikiki find his power again, and perhaps…even love?

Relentless Love

Sequel to Relentless Passion.Alex has already lost one lover to his brother Zeca. Now his fickle shenanigans have driven Hugh, his other lover, away as well. Alex desperately wants what his brother has, an intensely passionate relationship, so Zeca shares their father Toppy’s advice—you have to love before you can be relentless. Good advice, if Alex weren’t so afraid to follow it.When Toppy’s own love life gets a little, um…strange, he escapes to St. Tropez. He takes Alex with him, who finds himself face-to-face with Hugh. Too bad Hugh is already lip-to-lip with someone else. But Alex has come too far to turn back now.The game is on, and while Toppy gets up to his own sexual shenanigans under the St. Tropez sun, Alex will do anything to get back into Hugh’s life…his bed…his body. He’ll first have to learn to face his fears. Only then can he find relentless love.

Relentless Passion

Twins Alex and Zeca love to switch identities. It’s harmless fun until Alex wants to date a hot tourist visiting their home of Capri, and asks Zeca to take his place on a date with Alex’s current beau, Antonio. After a day in Antonio’s arms—followed by a long, lusty weekend in his bed during a trip to Naples—Zeca discovers switching places with Alex isn’t so harmless after all. Especially when he realizes he’s falling hard for his brother’s boyfriend.

While struggling with his feelings for Antonio, consoling his semi-celebrity father (who’s having woman troubles) and trying not to upset Alex (who might be in love with Antonio…or his tourist tryst…or maybe the neighbor lady), Zeca wonders how any of them will make it through all the relationship woes with hearts intact.

As Antonio says, “Love has a way of fixing things itself.”

My Yakuza

Shiro Yamada’s problem has always been his lovely, wayward mum, Siono, who was whisked to her native city of Tokyo from their home in Honolulu, Hawaii by a mysterious businessman. Now she’s gone missing and may even be dead, according to a strange telephone call.

Scraping together money to fly to Tokyo, Shiro learns that his mum’s boyfriend was none other than Shun’ichi Harada, a major Yakuza clan leader. He has no choice but to infiltrate the deadly gang as a low-level bike messenger. He finds out his mother was forced into sexual slavery, but is she dead or alive?

Shiro puts his life at risk, and that of a young Yakuza prostitute, Miki, by asking too many questions. The Yakuza have figured out who Shiro is and if he wants to survive, he must travel to New York and eliminate a powerful enemy: Kono Takumi. The man’s crime? He is a NYPD detective who infiltrated the Yakuza to solve a murder mystery. Not only that, but Kono is gay, which the clan finds offensive.

Unfortunately, so is Shiro. Will he shoot to kill the one man he finds so attractive? Or is this a dangerous game in which there are no winners?

First Foot
- Phantom Lover, #15

Kimo and Lopaka have taken their whole family to Scotland for an old-fashioned Christmas in a magnificent castle in the snowy Cairngorm Mountains. Their host, the Earl of Glennich is a fanatic for Christmas and follows all the ancient traditions once banned in Scotland for four hundred years, until 1958.

The daffy earl is obsessed with good luck and fears bad luck around every corner of his haunted castle. Will everything go right when he asks Kimo to First Foot on Christmas Day? Tradition holds that the first person to cross the threshold must be a dark-haired man. A fair-haired man or a woman, are considered bad luck. Kimo and Lopaka think things will go just fine. They're having fun sneaking off for furtive love-making and finding secret places to kiss. For Kimo, this family Christmas is a dream come true after many years of loneliness. Nothing but good luck could be on their Christmas horizon…or is it?

This is Book 15 in the best-selling "Phantom Lover" series.

The Oasis
- Palm Springs Diaries, #1

Elias and his best friend/roommate Josh take the plunge and head to Palm Springs for one of the notorious gay circuit parties that take place in the lavish desert resort called The Oasis on holiday weekends. After a disastrous start, they find all the sex with all the hot bodies they could want. However, they find to their surprise that the real oasis…was right under their noses all along. Elias and Josh realize there is something else between them. Could their real oasis be…each other?

LAID 3

Supercop Jack Cannon's met the man of his dreams and isn't about to give up loving Lucky...even when the man is marked for death.

LAPD Swat team member, Jack Cannon, takes on an unusual assignment, Threat Management, a new crack team created to target LA's most violent criminals, The Hollywood Ten. Then...Jack is shot and forced to take a vacation. He flies to London to spend time with his hot and sexy lover, Lucky, in London.

Jack's man is working on an undercover assignment. Jack's plans for a feisty little R and R don't sit well with the hit man who's been hired by a mysterious source to bump off Lucky.

With things heating up between Jack and Lucky all over London from public rest rooms to five-star hotels, Jack lures the wild assassin into their sensual web. This is either gonna be the beginnings of a spicy, feisty threesome...or a triple homicide.

Snake Eyes

River King is worried about his mom, Honey. An obsessive-compulsive-collector, she's pounced on every questionable craze in pop culture history. She spent a fortune on now-worthless Cabbage Patch Dolls, Beanie Babies and Yugio Cards…you name it, she's got…in multiple copies. Her latest obsession however is so secretive he's got a bad feeling she's in trouble when he can't reach her. He's not wrong. After he asks the local cops in her Brooklyn, NY, suburb of Park Slope to make a routine welfare check on her, he is stunned to learn that Honey is unconscious. She's been bitten by a snake. And not just any snake.

How in the world did his mom happen to own an uturu pit viper? River soon learns his mom, whose life hangs in the balance, has been obsessively collecting deadly snakes and venomous lizards bought mostly online and in furtive flea market deals. With the aid of local cops, a zoologist and hunky 'hoarder' therapist, Colton Fanning, River soon learns that love, like snakes, can strike at any time…

Seduced
- Children of the Rainbow 2

Some call it love, some call it passion, but when a soul is taken over, others call it...seduced.

Some call it love, some call it passion, but when a soul is taken over, others call it...seduced.

Paden Campbell wants nothing more than to enjoy his newfound togetherness with his love, the rainbow-walker, Track. The two men are growing closer, but Paden's solitude with his man is shattered when the mother of a young gay man approaches him. Her son is missing. Closer investigation reveals that Sean Maverick, who has traveled to Hawaii to visit his mom after a bad relationship break up, is afraid of water. He loathes the sea, hates pineapples...and Hawaii.

So how come, when Paden and Track walk the rainbow to help find him, the messages they receive are that Maverick can be found in the sea? What are these conflicting messages and can Paden and Track battle the forces of an ancient ocean deity to unlock the mystery? Paden enlists the help of his son's powerful husband, the great kahuna, Kimo Wilder, to help in the battle for a soul...seduced.

LOG LINE:
Who is spiriting away the hot young men of LA's Chinatown? Mysterious marks in the sky...the men returning, hungering for...seeking the man they call Banpaia.

BLURB:
WARNING: this book contains homoerotica and m?nage scenes.

Chinatown, Los Angeles. Young men are disappearing from their beds, sometimes vanishing as they cross the street with friends. The few witnesses who actually report a strange, mystical creature soon suffer memory lapses and die. Yet, the young men all return, one by one. They seem the same, but they are different.

Strange things are happening all over Chinatown, as if an odd mist enshrouds it. None of the men who disappeared can say what happened to them. Late at night, however, this legion of men, in love and lust with the one they call Banpaia, reach out for one another in the frenzy of their need. For Feng Li, a suicidal young man who feels he was saved by the legendary, centuries-old Japanese vampire, yearns for only him. For him,
there can be only one to claim his body and his heart.

Children of the Rainbow Book 1 - I couldn't meet a normal guy. Nope, I just had to go find myself a rainbow straddling, evil-defeating, hot and sexy guy.

Children of the Rainbow is a spin-off from Phantom Lover, in which all the treasured characters from that series will appear as the story progresses.

Track, the lover of Paden, has assumed human form after the pair meets in the book Paden (Book 14, Phantom Lover series). Track tells Paden they can be together, but their love exacts a price...one that Paden is soon to learn can be dangerous and potentially deadly.

On the day of a tsunami warning in Honolulu, Paden wakens to find Track is with him after several weeks of absence. They are needed, Track tells him and soon they're traversing a rainbow to unravel the mystery of a young man who has committed a kapu. He has broken a sacred taboo and the gods of old Hawaii are angry. The young man begs for help. Paden is surprised when Kimo's toddler daughter, Pele, named for Hawaii's powerful volcano goddess, arrives, having followed Paden into the spirit realm. She intervenes and the repercussions Paden soon learns, are cataclysmic.

Hardsex

Come back to Fantasium, where nothing is as it seems. In the second installment called Hardsex, a young skateboarder comes to New York City to compete in the competition of his life and finds himself in a race to save the man of his dreams. A building with a golden staircase that leads to paradise, a little man who deals in fantasies and a beautiful young champion in a coma are all that stands between Proano and the love of his life. Are they real or will they just suddenly disappear as soon as the competition has ended?

The Wine-Dark Sea

He’s a handsome Englishman. A successful writer living in Paris, writing guidebooks that help people discover the secret delights of the city and country he loves. As for discovering the secrets to navigating the treacherous Paris social scene, Daniel himself relies on a book, which imparts some unusual advice—be an elegant chair, seen and not heard. And he’s getting a lot of practice. His last lover, Alain, is undergoing a tremendous transformation that he didn’t confide in Daniel. His current lover, Francois, is a celebrated artist, as arrogant as he is amorous. Their needs and dramas overshadow everything, including Daniel.

He is a very elegant chair…

Against a backdrop of the world’s most romantic city, between rounds of sizzling sex and sensational betrayal, Alain and Francois teach Daniel about passion and pain, loss and lust, gentle humor and poignant heartache.

It will take someone else, someone unexpected, to teach him about love.

When Angel met Derik...fire met ice...but this just isn't any fire. This one might just burn down the house.

Angel Marquez Cienfuegos...in Spanish, his last name means A Hundred Fires, and Angel is as fiery as they come. A hero in his home country of Cuba, he's used to getting what he wants...and what he wants is his former lover, Cristiano. Still torn up over the loss of his lover now happily involved with hockey player, Alex Hunter, Angel's career is on the rise, but the Cuban government is playing havoc with his family life.

Desperate to get his dying mother to the US so he can take care of her, the Cuban government won't allow her to leave the country. Angel is being punished for fleeing his country and turning pro--pro sports are illegal in Cuba. Determined to win back Cristiano and bring his mother to him, everything changes when he meets Alex's bad boy hockey champion buddy, Derik Grasser. The hard-scrabble boxer and rich hockey player make their own fire--on and off the ice in this sequel to Fire and Ice.

Mingo McCloud's dream man, Francois, has vanished. What happens when a mild-mannered accountant falls for the hottest guy in the world? He becomes...needed.

Mingo McCloud, Honolulu's only criminal forensic accountant has settled into professional and personal bliss on Oahu's North Shore. His life with his lover, Francois, a security expert with mysterious ties to military and DEA authorities is on course until Francois accepts an apparently routine case of outfitting a Caribbean billionaire's luxury holiday home with state of the art security.

When Mingo receives a call from a woman claiming to be Francois's sister, he doesn't suspect anything until a tropical storm heads right toward St. Martin, where Francois was last seen. Mingo becomes frantic when his lover vanishes. He heads to the islands even though travelers are being turned away. Nothing will stop him from finding his missing man. Mingo thought he needed Francois but realizes as deadly forces try to stop him that he, himself, is needed.

Honeybone Book 1 - Murder, mayhem, hot man love...and madness. It's all in a day's work for US Federal Marshal, Dean Honeybone.

US Federal Marshal Dean Honeybone is accompanying extradited child killer Richard Stance to Australia when their plane crashes off the north-east coast of the island continent. The only survivors of the packed flight are Honeybone and nine-year old Kaia Pendleton, whom Dean rescued during the crash. As Dean and Kaia recuperate in a Queensland hospital, questions swirl about what caused the accident...and what happened to Stance's body, the only one not recovered from the crash site.

Unable to return to work due to his injuries and plagued by raging headaches and violent nightmares, Honeybone must rest. Convinced that Stance has survived and is out there somewhere, free to kill again, he's reluctant to take the gift of a week-long dream vacation at Wilson Island, a remote, luxury island resort where only ten guests at a time are allowed to visit. Honeybone gives in however and falls hard and fast for Jean-Luc Sebastien, the French chef on the island...but discovers that death and danger are as close as the next barrier reef.

What price must Paden Campbell pay to move from enslaved immortality to life as a free, loving father and husband again...and will he pay it?

Paden "Keneti" Campbell's metamorphosis from a Scottish medical student in the Hawaiian Islands to an immortal, shapeshifting warrior husband of a Samoan Cannibal King has come with a heavy price. His path takes a twisted, unprecedented turn when he is granted his freedom, thanks to his son, Lopaka. Both Lopaka and his husband, Kimo, have rescued Paden, who is now in search of his own destiny and a kinder, gentler love than his violent, powerful husband. Can he find redemption in love and can he forge a new relationship with Lopaka and his twin sister, Maluhia, whom he abandoned at birth. And can he find his way back to...Paden? This is the final book in the bestselling Phantom Lover series

Gavin's wife is back from the dead, loving life inside the hot body of Jackson...except Jackson wants to have fun...with lots and lots of guys.

In this sequel to the best-selling book Tall, Mean and Darkly, Gavin Jago and his wife have never had better sex since Chrissie died and came back as a guy. The tall, dark and handsome Jackson Avery. But dead guys...and girls, just wanna have fun. As Gavin adjusts to life as a very public gay man, Jackson is keen to experiment with his new, prodigious manly assets. This is a side of Chrissie's personality he's never seen before. Gavin realizes that Jackson, the real Jackson's personality is emerging and the once depressed, suicidal man has found new life and love.

But Gavin doesn't like this part of Jackson's persona. He wants the woman--er--man--er giraffe, he loves. Can they work things out or is Jackson likely to be the next one who finds himself under a bus?

Wanted

When Mingo met Jason, he thought this was it...except that Jason, apart from being sexy, hot, mysterious and mercurial, is a WANTED man...

Honolulu forensic accountant Mingo McCloud's lover has cheated on him again. To escape his heartbreak, a severely depressed Mingo moves to the North Shore of Oahu. Eager to start a new life and to forget, Mingo soon learns that Turtle Bay might be the home of big surf, but it also has even bigger secrets. He catches the eye of a mysterious stranger, Jason, a sexy lone wolf with a troubled, sketchy past. The two become embroiled in a tempestuous love affair that turns dangerous when Mingo discovers Jason is spying on him.

Involved in his first big murder case, Mingo needs all his emotional resources to help find a missing young housewife...yet his private life just turned deadly. He has no idea why Jason would be tracking his every move--or even who hired him. Determined to find the truth, he hires big black, bad French former mercenary, Francois, to help him...and discovers shocking truths...Mingo McCloud has gone from wanting to wanted.

The Apocalypse which has been foretold is now here. Vampires and humans scavenge for survival. Carden, the Pureblood vampire must decide…fulfill his destiny or sacrifice Rory.

Carden, Roy, Thiago and Dennis have survived the carnage of the Vampire/Human war. Carden is destined to battle his uncle for the title of King of the Vampires, whilst struggling with his own urge to drink human blood. He must make desperate choices—but the war is not over and an unexpected new enemy emerges from the fire.

Rory fights for his life and his soul mate. With a new world order emerging from blood and ashes, he's convinced he and Carden can be together. Thiago and Dennis have their problems, too. Dennis is dying from his injuries sustained in his abduction. Will any of them survive the Apocalypse, and emerge from it, together?

Black Point Book 5 - It's Christmas at Black Point. Will Santa fulfill Matt and Thomas' cherished dreams for a peaceful family holiday...or bring them lumps of coal instead?

Anticipating a tropical Christmas break with their family, Matt and Thomas await the birth of their baby. Not everyone is happy about the gay couple's pending parenthood. Their visions of sugar plums and hot man-man sex crash and burn when Thomas is abducted by religious fanatics.

With the surrogate mom going into premature delivery and Thomas missing, Matt's family races into action...for a Christmas their family and Black Point will never forget.

Jack Cannon's sexy ex Will Tallman is a cop on the take...there's nothing worse than a bad cop...or are appearances deceiving?

In this sequel to LAID, hot shot cop Jack Cannon is back in action. With his lover Lucio out of town on assignment, Jack has too much time on his hands and too much aggression to wait patiently at home for him.

With a multi-department takedown of a drug and gambling ring exposed in an old LA warehouse, Jack slips inside the ruined, crumbling building for some solo fun...except that a few other cops...and a bad guy or two have the same idea...some guys are just born to be bad...

Tem and Div's Halloween Vampire bash is in full swing. What curse could be worse? Mysteriously vanishing party guests or...a maniac burning down Waikiki?

It's Halloween in Waikiki. Some call it Devil Night. Tem and Divine Thunder, celebrating their first Halloween together, invite all their family, friends, former gay porn co-stars and their neighbors to trick or treat. Tem's gone berserk hiring caterers from every single island. There's a spook house built on their property especially for the festivities and moonlight pony rides.

Tem's in full-scale party diva mode when something goes horribly wrong. One by one, their guests start disappearing and even Tem's beloved cat, Moontime, is missing. And then they see the fires. From their mountaintop home on Tantalus, they see that Chinatown is on fire...two catastrophes and only one tiara...Tem and Div throw themselves into action, but are they too late?

What do you do when your dead wife returns, as promised? Except she's in the body of a big, bossy man who wants you...or else.

Hit by a bus, Gavin Jago's beloved wife makes one last promise before she dies in his arms. Somehow, some way, she will come back to him. He is grief stricken...and believing in ghosts, he hopes she will return.Time passes and he's given up until an unexpected visitor arrives at his door.

Jackson Avery is a big, tall, handsome, but very aggressive guy. He insists he is Chrissie and she--he--wants Gavin back. But Gavin isn't gay and not at all attracted at all to Jackson. It's never, ever gonna happen...or will true love really be able to conquer all?

Jack Cannon just seduced the wrong guy. He's hot, sexy and the FBI's new most-wanted man. No problem. Jack's just a cop getting laid...isn't he?

Jack Cannon is an elite member of LAPD's new Violent Crimes Unit. He's tough, he's smart...he's also gay. Jack's a guy who deals with pressure and stress by cruising. When he has a fling with a hot guy, one even hotter night in Los Angeles, it's no casual coupling. This guy is great. Jack wouldn't mind seeing him again except he's discovered he'll be seeing a lot of him. This is the guy he's supposed to tail--Lucio Natale, the most violent mob boss ever to land in the city of angels.

In the continuation of Blood Eclipse, Rory finds himself hopelessly enamored with Carden and will finally experience the rapture of loving a pure blood vampire. But there are those who are determined to have Carden at all costs to satisfy their own self-interest, and they won't let anyone get in their way.

Carden still seeks the truth of what happened to his parents long ago, and he won't rest until he finds the answers. And when the discovery is made, and shocking secrets are revealed, all hell breaks loose as Carden sets his sights on vengeance. And suddenly the fragility between good and evil will be blown wide open.

Jimmy Thunder's beloved Lincoln Continental has been stolen...what curse could be worse--your favorite ride being gone or sinister goings on right in your house?

You can steal a man's heart...you can steal his wallet, but stealing his car...that's just asking for trouble. Waikiki Vampire, Divine Thunder, and his husband, Tem, thought that going to hell and back--literally--was an ordeal. Now they're home and things are a mess--even Div's precious car, which he calls his other husband has been stolen. Picking up the pieces of their half-demolished home, they find themselves in the middle of a new and weird mystery.

They've hired an art historian who's a real weirdo and somebody keeps pinching their good wine and leaving booby traps in their garden. They hire Francois, a big, beautiful, black security expert to get to the bottom of the twisted things going on in the Thunder household. But wait...what the heck is going on? They keep seeing Div's car, driven by the thief all over the island. This is gonna give a whole new meaning to thunder in paradise.

Brought together by passion and desire, will the past betrayals of Cristiano and Alex's lives drive them apart?

Alex Hunter is known as The Comeback Kid. Injured in a devastating car accident, everyone thought his career as a professional hockey goalie was over. But, he persevered and managed to overcome it all, getting his career back. However, his injuries weren't the only tragedy from that night. Something worse happened, something that he must keep secret at all costs. If the truth were to come out it would ruin his reputation and career forever. Depressed, scared and disgusted with himself, Alex fights hard to maintain a happy front.

On the night of his big return to the ice, he meets the handsome boxer named Cristiano. As soon as Alex sees the man, he knows he must possess him. But Cristiano is a comeback kid too...returning to the fight game after a long absence, he has only recently discovered he is gay. Seduced by a hot Cuban champion, he is attracted to Alex, their union is fiery hot, but his own past keeps threatening to derail his future happiness. Beaten by his stepfather and thrown out of his house at fifteen by his mother, Cristiano trusts nobody. He's the man who dumped his last name after his dad abandoned him...now he is fighting for his life, in and out of the ring. Can Alex and Cristiano trust their love or will the past come back to haunt them both?

You can put a price on many things, but you can't put a price on love, loyalty...or immortality.

Na Hiku...Hawaiian for The Seven...Kahuna and Keeper of Secrets, Kimo Wilder, and his husband, Lopaka, have finally found the Seven Women that Goddess Pele has deemed necessary to protect the fate of their three small children. They have also found the long-lost leader of the Kahuna Council, Lopaka's own father, Paden, a man who has given up his family for a cannibal king in the South Seas.

Relying on Paden, a man with many secrets, fills Lopaka with terror. His father abandoned him and his twin sister, Maluhia, when they were infants. Will he stick around long enough to petition on their behalf, or will sinister forces prevent him doing so?

Waikiki vampire Jimmy Thunder is excited to finally have his cherished mate Tem all to himself. With their family members gone and this being Valentine’s Day, he has one thing on his mind. Some hot undead, man on man action…except Jimmy’s life is never that simple.

Tem is being troubled by bad dreams of the life he has left behind and Jimmy, the go-to guy for Waikiki’s undead denizens is required to come up with a new Ma Ma Loa…but who or what is a Ma Ma Loa? Can’t a guy be left in piece to enjoy love’s most famous day?

Vampire Christmas
- Gay, Romance, M/M, Vampire, Fantasy, Paranormal

Waikiki vampires Tem and Jimmy Thunder are happily undead and married, about to celebrate Christmas when their cat Moontime brings an unusual treasure to the door…a baby in a box. But this is no cute, cuddly kid. It’s a demon baby with red eyes and razor sharp teeth. Jimmy, hopelessly besotted with his hot and sexy husband, sees his new life of man-on-man fun being wrecked by this snarling, spitting, forked-tongued little incubus that has apparently won Tem’s heart.

With half of Waikiki’s wacky residents coming to Christmas dinner, what’s a devoted husband to do? Jimmy calls in all kinds of favors to figure out who the kid is, how he got here…and how to ensure this will be a merry, not marred Vampire Christmas.

Kimo Wilder, Hawaii’s number one hula dancer and Kahuna (High Priest) has big plans for Christmas Eve with his husband Lopaka…he wants to fulfill an amazing sexual fantasy. Lopaka however wants a traditional family Christmas, their first one ever with their wonderful children and assorted family members. Lopaka’s sister wants a special Filipino holiday dinner in honor of her new husband, complete with a special parole (Christmas star)…of course, Kimo wants what he wants…but when the fantasy involves Lopaka’s former lover Johnny, Lopaka’s inclined to cancel Christmas…

And then their children’s gifts all manage to disappear. This Christmas, will Kimo and Lopaka both get what they want? And what about the kids? Or is this job too big even for Santa Claus?

Hanalei Moon

World champion surfer Gaby Loe takes advantage of a rare tropical storm to train for his upcoming contest and wipes out badly. Fighting for his life, he almost drowns. When he makes it back to shore, he finds his beloved dog, his car keys, car, and his boyfriend, have all vanished. He’s about to discover that’s the least of his problems. Somehow, someway, he’s also lost TWELVE YEARS of his life. What on earth happened to him under that Hanalei Moon?

Back to Black Point

Erotic romance authors Thomas Carter and Matt Lucas have ‘met cute’ as they say in Hollywood movies. They’ve fallen in love over a blissful weekend in balmy, tropical Black Point in the Hawaiian Islands. Separation is devastating for Matt who returns to his home in California, pining for Thomas who abruptly cuts off all communication. Why has their volcanic passion been reduced to two impersonal lines in an email?

Emboldened by his brother Ryan’s heartfelt advice, Matt flies to Montreal and to Thomas’s home in Montreal’s Gay Village, hoping to rekindle their idyllic romance, only to find him with another man—Christian—the same man who almost destroyed Ryan’s marriage to his husband Cole. What is Christian doing with Thomas and what are his true motives? With trust a big issue on both sides, can love find a way? And will Thomas and Matt survive the obstacles fate seems to keep throwing at them? Matt wants to give Thomas everything, but will Thomas let him?

Stolen Magic
- M/M,Gay,M/M romance,paranormal,fantasy, tarot

Koa “The Ghost Warrior” Guerrero, Hawaii’s top heavyweight boxer is about to challenge Wladimir Petrenko, the most fearsome fighter in the division for the championship of the world. The scales are tipped against him in more ways than one…Koa is a man with a secret. He’s gay and falling hard for his new boyfriend Manalo.

He has another secret, too. Koa has stolen magic from Iolani, Queen of the Underworld, unleashing unholy havoc in his quest for mortal greatness…can Kimo Wilder, Hawaii’s hottest kahuna help save Koa from the Queen’s death warrant?

Black Point

Matt greatly admires Rose, the top male/male erotic writer in America. Just as Matt and rose start to develop genuine feelings for each other via frequent emails and online chats, Rose sells her latest book to a big Hollywood movie studio. Matt is as ecstatic as she is, but also increasingly shocked and bewildered by his developing feelings for this woman he has never met, because he is gay.

Rose too, has sexual fantasies about the hot new writer who writes for the same publishing company. Only problem is, Matt is gay, but then again, so is Rose whose real name is Thomas!

Sternly warned by her publisher not to reveal her true identity to the man she is falling hard and fast for, Rose and Matt both ponder what seems like an improbable romance...or is it true love?

Will their dreams be fulfilled or shattered when they finally meet at a romance writers' conference in Honoluluat the exotic, mysterious and utterly romantic BLACK POINT....

Beyond the Reef

Wannabe actor Tony Kaven’s career hasn’t just stalled. It’s in reverse, so he jumps at the chance of being a personal assistant to mercurial movie star Rufus Roscoe on location in Maui, Hawaii. Tony wants to do well, except that from the moment he arrives, everything goes wrong. Roscoe hates everything about him, even his shoes.

It looks like he’s about to get canned when a mysterious man named Frank shows up naked in Tony’s shower and tells him he is the man of his dreams. His true love.

Who is this guy? And how is that when Frank is around, everything has a way of going right? Tony finds that love means taking a leap of faith, but he finds more than that…it also means rolling with the punches, but leading with your heart.

Rent Boy

Kimo Wilder, Hawaii's number one hula dancer and powerful kahuna (priest) is booked into a lavish hotel in Maui during a July 4th weekend break...with a Rent Boy. Would he really cheat on his beloved husband Lopaka...or will the Independence Day fireworks display, set for sunset on the island, not going to be the only explosion Maui's going to see over the weekend?

Shipwreck Bay

Dragan and his lover Marek are taking one last shot at love. Taking a Cruise through the GreekIoanianIslands in an effort to revive their once hot relationship, Marek is deeply hurt by Marek’s recent online infidelity. He isn’t sure he even wants to be with Marek anymore, let alone be stuck on a boat in the middle of nowhere.

Just as he starts to relax and enjoy the timeless beauty of the island of Zakynthos and Marek begins to convince him of his remorse, the two men are abducted by pirates on an isolated white-gold sandy cove called ShipwreckBay.

Summer Love
- Gay, Romance, M‚nage a Trois, Alternate Lifestyles

Hawaiian kahuna and Keeper of Secrets, Kimo Wilder, and his husband Lopaka are expecting twins! Their joy at pending parenthood is shadowed however by Kimo’s fears that somebody will try and stop these children from being born. Already, other kahuna know that these twins will be the most powerful kahuna the islands have ever seen. Lopaka’s twin sister Maluhia, who is the surrogate for the couple, must be protected at all costs. Kimo takes his burgeoning family on a vacation to secret, power vortexes all over the islands, enlisting the aid of the ancient gods and goddesses. Maluhia also has just one request. She wants Kimo to conjure up a Summer Love for her and her romantic choice is unusual to say the least. She wants to bed the ancient shark god Kamohoali’i, brother of the Volcano Goddess Pele. Summer Love is book number three of the sexy, exciting Phantom Lover series.

Fly Me To The Moon

Kimo and his husband Lopaka are celebrating their first Christmas together. For Kimo, Christmas has never been important. Taken from his parents at the age of three to be raised in the ways of the ancient Hawaiian kahuna (priests) he has defied and changed huna law to marry another man. A man who wants to show him the true meaning of Christmas in twelve very sexy ways. Kimo learns that Christmas is about giving and receiving…over and over again. And Lopaka learns something too: the true meaning of the words, Fly Me to the Moon.

Forbidden Island
- Phantom Lover Book II

Johnny Kaimana is a young Honolulu tour guide, enjoying a fun, carefree existence and a no-strings sexual relationship with his roommate, island music man Alex “Aloha” Granger. Just as things turn serious between them Johnny finds himself drawn to Mahini, a mysterious stranger, an imperious tattoo artist from The Forbidden Island of Ni’ihau. What starts as a hot sexual romp turns almost deadly when Mahini, determined to either keep Johnny for himself or kill him, secretly burdens him with an ancient, evil curse called he malama pu’olo, or a Bundle of Death. With the aid of the powerful kahuna priest Kimo Wilder (from the book Phantom Lover), Johnny seeks to retrieve the very personal object Mahini has stolen from him. To get it back means making a rare and dangerous trip to Ni’ihau an island forbidden to outsiders. Can Johnny break the hold of the curse? He must, for his sanity, for his life and also for the life of the man he realizes he truly loves. The man he calls Aloha.

Phantom Lover
- Romance, Gay, Menage a Trois, Alternative Lifestyles

Hawaiian hula dancer Bobby Kikawa has deep fantasies about the dark, mysterious, Kimo Wilder, especially after Kimo poses for an erotic painting called Phantom Lover. He plans to seduce Kimo even though Kimo is straight, married and known for his extreme loyalty to his wife.

Alone on a hot night after dance rehearsal on the big island of Hawaii, Bobby manages to persuade Kimo to let him service his hot, neglected, extremely hungry passion.

The two men soon become embroiled in a red-hot fling that threatens not only Kimo's marriage but Bobby's sanity when he discovers Kimo is a `Keeper of Secrets' in the Hawaiian culture.a man born of fire and hidden, taboo dark magic the ancient Hawaiians called Loa.

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